(March 27, 2022 at 2:00 pm)JairCrawford Wrote: So when a particle behaves like a wave, it’s simply moving so quickly that we can’t detect it at a specific given point?
Does this mean that it’s theoretically possible that things we once thought were waves (like light) might actually be composed of super fast moving particles? If this can be true of light can it be true of other forms of energy?
A fundamental aspect to reality is the Uncertainty Principle, which is not merely a hunch that physicists have that may or may not be overcome someday, but a theoretical limit on that which can, in principle, be measured to an arbitrary level of precision no matter the sophistication of the measuring apparatus.
Finally, as discussed elsewhere on this board, these are scientific models of how Nature works, and scientists test, refine and retest these models to ever and ever greater levels of precision, trying to develop even better models.
Once again, the burden of proof is on someone to come up with a better model that makes testable predictions that are more precise than those of existing models, and, especially, that lead to new discoveries. Scientists who do such things sometimes win Nobel Prizes.
